Thread: Dell 2130cn Color Laser Tests

Dell sets the color laser printer 2130cn only Windows drivers in. Mac operating systems remain to be disregarded - unusual in this printer class. Otherwise the device is the equipment of the calculated narrow: It may have dominated the Emulations PCL (Printer Command Language) provides 6 and 5e, Postscript, however not at all before - not even an option. Of connections, there are USB and Ethernet. In addition, the printing film is not possible. The media is missing not only in the driver selection, but was not handled correctly by the printer also. Stripes and a lack of adequate funds were particularly disturbing.



In color mode, we received printouts with brilliant, sometimes quite striking colors. A grid was visible at all times. Text and graphics in shades of gray were against the strength of the unit. Especially in text mode voted the black cover and the letters of focus. The smooth edges were also isolated Toner Spitzer harm it.

It comes with toner cartridges found with standard filling commendable. They are placed side in the printer and are separated from the drum. We considered based on the refill kit with maximum reach, we were on page cost of 2.1 cents for monochrome and 8.3 cents for the colored sheet. These are reasonable costs. At the same time the Dell model showed frugal in power consumption: the fan is turned on just before pressure from the start and immediately after completion of the print job again. In addition, the printer was in sleep mode to 10.5 watts and regulated to save energy further and further down to 6 watts - commendable